From
the page: “Pop Culture is a Virtual Ghetto that infiltrates our minds.
In this Virtual Ghetto, meaning is meaningless un-less you un-cover a
radically different subjectivity in which to process your own becoming.
This was the PoMo dilemma (one never resolved) and Avant-Pop artists,
who are just now traversing the borders of The Beyond and entering the
dangerous lands of Genderlessness and Degenerative Narrative, are the
ones who are presently trying their best to create the necessary angels
on whose wings we can find our way OUT of this virtual ghetto.
The Avant-Pop artist is a nomadic voyager, a cultural terrorist, whose
identity is constantly in flux (so as to elude the corporate
absorption), and who secretly “becomes” something like Woman or the
open-endedness of feminine imagination, reclaiming the terrain
vis-a-vis the enactment of subliminal postures/gestures that sabotage
the system’s rigidity. The strategy is to deterritorialize the
Institutional effects so as to create a new level playing field where
the action of hypermarked-up beings can once again ignite the language
of our spiritual unconscious.
Pop Culture is a Virtual Ghetto. This is another way of saying that our
MINDS have become Virtual Ghettos since that is where we have let Pop
Culture breed. We need to Reclaim the Imagination in such a way as to
synchronize our intuitive desires with the non-linear narrative spaces
they want to circulate in. Our dilemma then becomes how to make the
Electric real while simultaneously making the desert of our souls
virtually inhabitable.”
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Rather more optimistic than I’d want to be. Suspect it’s more just the same old same old. Would in particular look at the role of porn in the French Revolution*.
What may have been radical revolution then is just wanna-be warmed up re-runs now.
* Also : libidomag.com/nakedbrunch/archive/europorn01.html [libidomag.com]